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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.</td>
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<td class="v">5:16</td>
<td>Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.</td>
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<td class="v">5:17</td>
<td>Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">5:18</td>
<td>Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.</td>
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<td class="v">5:19</td>
<td>Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.</td>
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<td class="v">5:20</td>
<td>And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?</td>
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<td class="v">5:21</td>
<td>For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.</td>
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<td class="v">5:22</td>
<td>His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.</td>
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<td class="v">5:23</td>
<td>He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.</td>
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